Tag: Abortions

Abortion is important because "it helps to address the number of people that we have on this planet" so that "we can get to a sustainable population," the president of the Sierra Club told FOX News's Tucker Carlson on Thursday.
"Last year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade you all issued a press release saying that the Sierra Club stands in solidarity – I think I’m quoting – with Planned Parenthood," said Carlson. "Now, people feel that way, okay. What does that have to do with the environment? Why does legal abortion make the environment better?"
"Well, we believe in empowering women’s rights," Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, responded. "We think that, uh, women who have rights and who have the ability to have choice about their reproductive – make their own

Trump pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who oppose the law that guarantees women the right to have an abortion.
Affirming his campaign pledge to appoint Supreme Court justices who oppose abortion, President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said that women would “have to go to another state” to get an abortion if the court were to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Having to do with abortions, if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states,” he said in his first post-election interview, on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
“Yeah, but then some women won’t be able to get an abortion?” Lesley Stahl asked.
Trump responded: “Yeah, well, they’ll perhaps have to go, they’ll have to go to another state.”
When Stahl asked if he thought that was acceptable, Trump said to wait and see.
“Well,